Edwin H. Clough was born in Sonora, Tuolumne County, California on February 11, 1854. He began work on the San Francisco Chronicle
in 1870 and worked for various newspapers as a writer and reporter. In 1910, he went to San Diego. He wrote a column called
"On the Margin" for the San Diego Evening Tribune under the pen name "Yorick." Clough died January 14, 1923.